YELLOW-BELLIED, OR CARE BUNTING. 213 
with, reddish rufous ; this latter colour, however, is 
very strong on the middle of the scapular and inter- 
scapular feathers, which have also a dark spot on 
the centre. The wing-covers, primaries* and se- 
condaries are dark brown, edged with very light 
grey ; but the outer Webs and tips of the tertials are 
rufous brown, but not so red as the back. The 
three lateral tail-feathers on each side are more or 
less white at the tips of their inner webs, but the 
outermost one has the external w r eb white, except 
at its two ends. The under plumage is more simple. 
The tip of the chin and the under tail-covers are 
pure white ; and the sides of the body bufF-brown, 
but from the chin to the vent, the whole plumage 
is of a full, bright* and uniform yellow. Bill and 
legs brown ; thighs nearly white. 
Total length, 5| ; bill from the front, T 4 5 ; wings, 
2 T 7 g ; tail from the base, 2i ; tarsus, T 7 5 . 
WHITE-SPOTTED LARK. 
Certhilauda nivosa, Swains. 
Above fawn or testaceous, spotted with white ; beneath white ; 
the breast spotted with black ; middle and external tail- 
feathers entirely testaceous ; bill slender. 
The uniformity of colouring which runs through 
nearly the whole of the Lark family, is one out of 
the numberless instances of that harmonious design 
